In Boston Thursday night, the Edmonton Oilers got a hat trick from Patrick Maroon in a 4-3 win over the Bruins.
Cam Talbot (#33) – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
It was Maroon’s first hat trick and included his 14th goal of the season.
“This is cool. This is pretty special for me,” Maroon said. “I don’t think in 1,000 years I’d ever imagine me getting a hat trick in the NHL.”
The Bruins picked up goals from Colin Miller, Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci who made close late in the game but that was all Boston could muster on the night.
“For sure a tough game to lose, especially on a night like this,” Boston’s Zdeno Chara said. “It was a night where it was dedicated to Milt and what he’s done, and I felt we let him and obviously his family, including the fans, down. It’s a tough way to lose. I thought we were obviously playing a tight game, and then again we lost it by mistakes made. It happened in the third and they got a two-goal lead, and we made it one goal but again fell short.”
Tuukka Rask made 21 stops in taking the loss as the Bruins fell to 20-17-4.
“Every breakdown we seemed to have ends up in the back of our net. So those are frustrating nights,” Boston head coach Claude Julien said. “They’re frustrating losses, especially when you need to win. So definitely, that’s how I look at it. We were the better team, there’s no questions there. We just gave them too many gifts.”
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also had a goal for the Oilers.
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Cam Talbot made 33 saves for Edmonton who improved to 20-13-7.
“I thought [Patrick Maroon] showed it tonight. A hat trick, a scrap against a very big, tough individual, their leader (Chara),” Oilers head coach Todd McLellan said. “And that’s what you can see on the game sheet tomorrow and a week from now. But all the board work and the grind time that he did to keep plays alive. We weren’t real sharp early … I thought it took him, his line, some of our bigger bodies to settle things down and get us back into the game.”
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